The body, I had been taught, wants only to live. Suicide, I had understood, is an act not of the body against itself but of the will against the body. Yet here I beheld a body that was going to die rather than change its nature.

J.M. Coetzee
Some Similar Quotes
  1. And he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, but it would happen. You couldn't live for very long without a heart. - Jodi Picoult

  2. I don't want to hurt you or anybody so please forget about me. Just try. Find yourself a better friend. - Nina Lacour

  3. There used to be days that I thought I was okay, or at least that I was going to be. We'd be hanging out somewhere and everything would just fit right and I would think 'it will be okay if it can just be like... - Nina Lacour

  4. You might be looking for reasons but there are no reasons. - Nina Lacour

  5. The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes. - Courtney Love

More Quotes By J.M. Coetzee
  1. I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than polemical, that will bring enlightenment rather than seeking to divide us into the righteous and the sinners, the saved and the damned, the...

  2. In a world of chance is there a better and a worse? We yield to a stranger's embrace or give ourselves to the waves; for the blink of an eyelid our vigilance relaxes; we are asleep; and when we awake, we have lost the direction...

  3. Die Wahrheit wird nicht im Zorn gesprochen. Die Wahrheit, wenn sie denn gesprochen wird, wird im Geist der Liebe gesprochen.

  4. The secret of happiness is not doing what we like but in liking what we do.

  5. Asymmetrie [macht] Menschen unglücklich.

Related Topics